Guerrero: Kevin de León’s bid for sympathy digs a deeper hole
After two straight losses, with a 3-1 record under his belt, the Cleveland Browns found themselves in the midst of a nightmare.
In a game where it wasn’t too long ago we were celebrating a 30-year-old, Tim Couch, coming over from Pittsburgh, the second consecutive year Couch would score a pair of touchdowns and lead the Steelers (and everyone associated with the Browns) to a 38-28 win that had the Browns at 7-9.
A night to forget that turned a three-game losing streak into the worst-case scenario; a chance for the Browns to correct some of the mistakes they were making in 2013.
So instead of a long-awaited victory in a meaningless road game against the San Diego Chargers, we watched the Browns fall to the New York Jets to end all losing streaks.
The only good thing about losing to the Jets: If Cleveland keeps losing, they look like they’ve lost two games in a row, as opposed to the four consecutive losses they’ve sustained since they started this thing in 2013.
That’s one of the things that’s going to drive these Browns, all the way to the playoffs or the Super Bowl, for that matter.
If they think a loss tonight means they’ve lost out to the Jets, I think they’re going to be more pumped than they are right now.
Instead, it meant they now go three more losses on the road to New England, Jacksonville and Pittsburgh, with a chance of ending the season with a loss that would have spelled doom for a team the Browns didn’t expect to win until they saw the Cowboys beat the Redskins.
Cleveland, after a 6-0 start with a 6-2 mark was 0-5. After a 13-0 start with a 14-0 mark was 1-3. Then after a 9-3 start with a 10-1 mark was 1-2. Now, with a 3-3 record after 16 games, it’s down to the fifth-worst record in the NFL, with the other three teams (the New England Patriots, Jacksonville Jaguars and Pittsburgh Steelers) in that group in the middle of the pack.
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